On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:05:26 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 22/02/2013 4:39 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 2/22/2013 4:16 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>> No, but you can cut the stamp off with scizzors and glue it to a fresh
>>>> >envelope. The post office doesn't care as long as the stamp hasn't
>>>> been
>>>> >cancelled.
>>> Actually they do care, they won't accept a snipped stamp just because
>>> the canceller missed it, and they can prosecute for attempting a
>>> fraud. Affixing a steamed off stamp is also considered attempted
>>> fraud.
>>> Read 1.3d and 1.8:http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/604.htm
>>
>>
>> Tell that to the postal workers who have never noticed. You don't
>> really think they stand there scrutinizing every letter?
>>
>>
>
>I think he is confused there, which is surprising because Sheldon is
>sometimes right about things when there is a link to it. I think
>1.3.d refers to those printed stamps on cards, not stuck on. So you
>can't buy some prepaid metered type of mailer and then cut out the
>corner with the meter stamp. The other one, 1.8 would appear to refer to
>re-using a stamp that was not properly cancelled. There should be no
>problem with one that has not been used in a sent letter. A stamp is,
>after all, a form of currency. You should be able to change your mind
>about what it is to be used for.

Read more carefully... but more importantly use some common sense...
what makes you think the postal service wants folks to reuse stamps
just because the machinery failed to print the cancellation... didn't
you read where some attempt to circumvent cancellation by waxing the
stamps.